Fountain-Daviess County IN Archives Biographies.....Cole, William Carnahan 1828 - 
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Author: H. W. Beckwith (1881)

   William Carnahan Cole, M.D., was born July 16, 1828, in Washington, Daviess
county, Indiana, of English and Scotch-Irish ancestry. In his eighteenth year he
enlisted in New Orleans, Louisiana, in the regiment of Mounted Rifles, Smith's
brigade, Twigg's division, and with that command, under Gen. Scott, participated
in all the battles in the Valley of Mexico, entering the city September 14,1847,
aud remaining nine months. He was discharged at Jefferson barracks, Missouri. He
studied medicine at the Medical College of Ohio, attending two full courses of
lectures and graduating from that school. He located in Newtown, Fountain
county, March 1852, where he practiced until December 1859, when he changed his
location to a farm in Shawnee township, where he has practiced ever since with
the exception of the three years he served in the Union army. In August, 1862,
he assisted in recruiting Co. H, 72d reg. Ind. Vols., of which company he was
elected first lieutenant. On the arrival of the regiment at Indianapolis he was
commissioned by Gov. Morton assistant surgeon; and after one year of service in
the field, and in charge of Hospital No. 5, at Gallatin, Tennessee, was
commissioned surgeon of the 72d regiment. He served during the last year of the
war as brigade surgeon of Wilder's brigade of mounted infantry; the 72d and 17th
Indiana and the 98th and 123d Illinois comprising the brigade. At the close of
the last campaign, while at Macon, Georgia, he detailed Dr. Groves, of the 98th
Illinois, to accompany the 4th Michigan in pursuit of Jeff. Davis. The doctor
was present at the capture of that noted personage. He was mustered out of the
service at Indianapolis. He is a member of the American Medical Association,
Indiana State Medical Society, and of the Fountain County Medical Society, of
which last he is president. He was married May 3, 1853, to Miss Mary A.
Carnahan, who was born November 5, 1830, at Newville, Cumberland county,
Pennsylvania, and who emigrated with her parents to Fountain county in 1835,
settling in Shawnee township. Dr. Cole's eldest son, William G., was born in
Newtown, June 9, 1854. He attended Waveland Collegiate Institute and Wabash
College each one term. He was married May 27, 1879, to Miss Eva Haas, who was
born November 25, 1860. They have a child, William C., born March 24, 1880. Both
are members of the Beulah Presbyterian church, and he is a republican.

Additional Comments:

Shawnee Township

HISTORY OF FOUNTAIN COUNTY,

TOGETHER WITH
HISTORIC NOTES ON THE WABASH VALLEY,

GLEANED FROM EARLY AUTHORS, OLD MAPS AND MANUSCRIPTS
PRIVATE AND OFFICIAL CORRESPONDENCE, AND OTHER AUTHENTIC, THOUGH, FOR THE MOST
PART, OUT-OF-THE-WAY SOURCES.

BY H. W. BECKWITH,
OF THE DANVILLE BAR; CORRESPONDING MEMBER OF THE HISTORICAL SOCIETIES OF
WISCONSIN AND CHICAGO.

WITH MAP AND ILLUSTRATIONS.

CHICAGO: H. H. HILL AND N. IDDINGS, PUBLISHERS.
1881.


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